Comparison of disc image software
The following is a list of software programs that can read and/or write ISO image files broken down by platform support and capability. Capability is defined as ability to create, mount, burn, and/or extract as follows:
- Create, the ability to create a new ISO file.
- Edit, the ability to manipulate the contents of an existing ISO file.
- Mount, the ability to mount an ISO image and emulate a disc volume.
- Burn, the ability to burn an ISO file to an Optical Disc.
- Extract, the ability to copy the contents of the ISO file to a hard disk.
| Software | Cr | Ed | Mn | Br | Ex | input | output | OS | License | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7-Zip | No | No | No | No | Yes | File hierarchy | Cross-platform | Open source | File archiver | |
| ISO Master | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Linux, BSD Windows |
Open source Commercial |
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| ISO-o-Matic | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | b5i bin cdi img (normal/CloneCD) mdf (Alcohol 120%) nrg (Nero Burning ROM) pdi uif |
b5i bin cdi img (normal/CloneCD) mdf (Alcohol 120%) nrg (Nero Burning ROM) pdi uif |
Amiga | ? | Converter |
| ISOMount | No | No | Yes | No | No | Amiga (ADF) 880KB ether OFS and FFS) MS-DOS (IMG) from 360KB upto 2.88MB (Fat12) Atari ST 800KB (Fat12) MAC GS (file image of Mac has no extensions) 800KB (MFM encoded) CD (ISO) every size including floppy specific |
Amiga | ? | ||
| MountVirtual and DiskImage |
No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO ADF DMS IFS |
AmigaOS MorphOS |
? | Mounts CD ISO images as standard Amiga devices; MountVirtual requires DiskImage for functoning | |
| VirtualCD | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO CD-Image |
Amiga | ? | ||
| mkisofs | Yes | No | No | No | No | File system | ISO | Linux Amiga |
? | Part of the cdrtools package |
| Amkisofs | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Amiga | ? | Amiga portings of MaKeISOFileSystem |
| bchunk-os4 | Yes | No | No | No | No | bin cue |
iso cdr |
Amiga | ? | Converter (OS 4.0 version) |
| Bin2ISO | Yes | No | No | No | No | bin | iso | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| cso2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | CSO | iso | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| daa2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | DAA | iso | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| dax2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | DAX | iso | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| dmg2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | DMG | iso | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| Edison | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Amiga | ? | Patches ISO-image headers from MakeCD/BurnIt Amiga burning programs |
| ISOBuilder | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ISO 9660 Images Amiga ISO 9660 Mac ISO 9660 |
Amiga | ? | |
| ISOTools | Yes | No | No | No | No | Instant Copy CDRWin Alcohol 120% CloneCD BlindWrite DiscJuggler |
ISO | MorphOS | ? | |
| nrg2iso_OS4 | Yes | No | No | No | No | .nrg | .iso | Amiga | ? | Converter (OS 4.0 version) |
| raw2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | RAW | ISO | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| uif2iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | UIF | ISO | Amiga | ? | Converter |
| AmiDVD | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | DVD | Amiga MorphOS |
? | Simple utility to create DVDs |
| BurnIT! | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | CD DVD |
Amiga | Commercial | |
| Frying Pan | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | CD | Amiga | Commercial | |
| MakeCD | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Amiga | Commercial becoming freeware |
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| dvdrtools | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | DVD-R DVD-RW CD-R CD-RW |
Linux AmigaOS MorphOS |
GPL | A fork of cdrtools |
| DVDAuthor | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | DVD | Amiga | ? | |
| K3b | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | CD DVD |
Unix-like | GPL | CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE |
| File Roller | No | No | No | No | Yes | 7z gzip bzip bzip2 compress LZO ZIP JAR LHA RAR gzip bzip bzip2 compress LZO ISO images |
7z gzip bzip bzip2 compress LZO ZIP JAR LHA RAR gzip bzip bzip2 compress LZO |
Unix-like | GPL | File archiver |
| KIso | No | Yes | No | No | No | ISO | ISO | Unix-like | Open source | For the KDE |
| isoinfo | No | No | No | No | No | ISO | Linux | ? | List contents of an iso image; part of the cdrtools package | |
| mount | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | Linux | ? | Command:mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso(assuming the directory /mnt/iso exists) | |
| PowerISO (for Linux) | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | ISO BIN DAA ... |
Linux | Free | Extract, list and convert image files |
| uniso | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | File hierarchy | POSIX | GPL | |
| Disk Utility | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ? | Mac OS X | ? | Built-in general disk utility | |
| DiskImageMounter | No | No | Yes | No | No | several types of disk image files |
Mac OS X | ? | Built-in utility | |
| Disco | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | CD DVD |
Mac OS X | Commercial | Mastering program to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, duplicate disc, burn VIDEO_TS folders and create a disc spanning as well as a searchable disc index. |
| DVD Imager | Yes | No | No | No | No | VIDEO_TS folders | ISO | Mac OS X | Free | |
| HdiUtil | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Mac OS X | Built-in command-line tool to create, attach, verify, convert, burn... | |
| ISOlator | Yes | No | No | No | No | File hierarchy DMG |
ISO | Mac OS X | Free | Simple drag & drop utility |
| Roxio Toast | No | No | Yes | No | No | many types of disk images, including both sides of an HFS/ISO9660 hybrid image |
Mac OS X | Commercial | Mastering program | |
| SimplyBurns | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | CD DVD |
Mac OS X | GPL | CD/DVD burner supporting AudioCD/Data project mode, duplication mode, disc ripping mode... |
| Active ISO File Manager | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ISO 9660/Joliet File hierarchy CD DVD |
ISO 9660/Joliet File hierarchy CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | Command line parameters can automate processes |
| Alcohol 120% | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ISO CD DVD |
ISO CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| Ashampoo Burning Studio | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO many other types of image files |
CD DVD Blu-ray |
Microsoft Windows | Shareware | |
| CloneDVD | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ISO, CD, DVD, Individual DVD files |
ISO, CD, DVD, Individual DVD files |
Microsoft Windows | Shareware | From SlySoft |
| Daemon Tools Pro | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Commercial | ||
| IsoBuster | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Shareware | Extract ISOs, plus full CD descriptions in various modes, and handle and extract ISO and related files | |
| IsoEdit | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| MagicISO | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ISO | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Shareware | From MagicISO, Inc. |
| Nero 8 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ISO File hierarchy |
ISO CD DVD |
Windows 2000 Windows XP |
Commercial | Unable to mount ISO images in Vista; no support for any 64-bit environments |
| Phantom Burner | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ISO File hierarchy |
ISO CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| Power Archiver | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Shareware | File archiver |
| NTI CD&DVD Maker | Yes | No | No | No | No | ISO | CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| NTI CD&DVD Maker | Yes | No | No | No | No | ISO | CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| PowerISO | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Many disk image formats |
Many disk image formats |
Microsoft Windows | Shareware | |
| UltraISO | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ISO ISZ |
ISO ISZ |
Microsoft Windows | Shareware | |
| Undisker | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ISO, hard disk CD/DVD image |
ISO, hard disk CD/DVD image |
Microsoft Windows | Shareware | |
| WinISO | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ISO, BIN |
ISO, BIN, bootable CD |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | |
| WinImage | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | Many images fileystem |
Many images fileystem |
Microsoft Windows | Commercial | Fully-fledged disk-imaging suite |
| WinRAR | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Shareware | File archiver | |
| Gesttic | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Microsoft Windows | ? | Software ISO - Software ISO 9001 |
| Alcohol 52% FE | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Free trial | Feature-limited edition of Alcohol 120% | |
| AVS Disc Creator | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ISO CDRW DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | 5mb Foot print when installed |
| Burnatonce | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | Microsoft Windows | ? | Source code available |
| BURNCDCC | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | CD DVD BD |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | |
| cdburn.exe | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | CD | Microsoft Windows | ? | Command-line utility; included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package (see also dvdburn.exe) |
| CDBurnerXP | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO Files |
CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | |
| dvdburn.exe | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | DVD | Microsoft Windows | ? | Command-line utility; included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package |
| Daemon Tools Lite | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO Optical disc |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | Freeware version of Daemon Tools Pro | |
| WinCDEmu | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | Windows XP Windows Vista |
GPL | ||
| DVD Shrink | Yes | No | No | No | No | DVD movies | ISO DVD VIDEO_TS folder |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | Can decrease the size of the output at a lesser quality to copy onto a smaller sized medium |
| Folder2Iso | Yes | No | No | No | No | File hierarchy | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | mkisofs frontend; without installation |
| Gizmo Drive | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ISO | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | |
| ImgBurn | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | ISO | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | |
| InfraRecorder | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | GPL | |
| ISO Plugin for Windows Commander | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ISO | File hierarchy | Microsoft Windows | Free | |
| ISO Recorder | Yes | No | No | No | No | Data CD Data DVD only |
ISO | Windows XP and later |
Free | |
| IZArc | No | No | No | No | Yes | ISO other disk image format |
File hierarchy | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | File archiver |
| LC ISO Creator | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | CD/DVD ISO | Windows NT Windows 2000 XP |
Freeware | 23kB |
| MagicDisc | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | CD DVD |
ISO | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | |
| Nero DiscSpeed | No | No | No | Yes | No | ISO | CD DVD |
Microsoft Windows | Freeware | CD/DVD test program |
| Phantom CD[1] | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO BIN CUE |
Microsoft Windows | Free | ||
| Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel | No | No | Yes | No | No | ISO only | Microsoft Windows | Free | From Microsoft | |
| Virtual CloneDrive | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | Microsoft Windows | Freeware | From SlySoft | |
| Starburn | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Microsoft Windows | Free | |
| lofiadm(1) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Solaris | ? |
(1) Command to manage files as block devices. Use to create a loopback device for an ISO image file suitable for mounting with lofiadm -a /path/to/iso /dev/lofi/X. Mount the loopback device as a randomly accessible file system with mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/X /mnt/point. Alternatively, use this combined format: mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /path/to/iso` /mnt/point.